14-letter words containing o, n, e, s, h
- castle shannon — a city in SW Pennsylvania.
- cellini's halo — Heiligenschein.
- cephalosporins — Plural form of cephalosporin.
- chancellorship — The chancellorship is the position of chancellor. Someone's chancellorship is the period of time when they are chancellor.
- chase pointers — (programming) To determine a chain of memory locations where each location holds a pointer to the next, starting from some initial pointer, e.g. traversing a linked list or other graph structure. This may be performed by a computer executing a program or by a programmer going through a core dump or using a debugger.
- chemosterilant — any process or chemical compound that can produce sterility, used esp. in insect control
- chemosynthesis — the formation of organic material by certain bacteria using energy derived from simple chemical reactions
- chemosynthetic — That utilizes chemosynthesis.
- chest-on-chest — a chest of drawers fitted onto another, somewhat larger one
- china syndrome — a hypothetical nuclear-reactor accident in which the fuel would melt through the floor of the containment structure and burrow into the earth.
- chinese houses — a plant, Collinsia heterophylla, of the figwort family, native to California, having clusters of double-lipped purple and white flowers.
- chivalrousness — The state of being chivalrous.
- cholestyramine — a drug that reduces and prevents re-absorption of bile in the body
- cholinesterase — an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine to choline and acetic acid
- chondrogenesis — the growth of cartilage
- christocentric — having as the theological focal point the teachings and practices of Jesus Christ.
- chromoproteins — Plural form of chromoprotein.
- chronosequence — (geology) A sequence of different soils formed at different times.
- clearing house — If an organization acts as a clearing house, it collects, sorts, and distributes specialized information.
- clearing-house — a place or institution where mutual claims and accounts are settled, as between banks.
- clearinghouses — Plural form of clearinghouse.
- clothes hanger — item for hanging clothing
- co-chairperson — one of two or more joint chairpersons.
- coach transfer — a short journey by coach constituting part of a longer journey taken chiefly by a different mode of transport, esp a journey to or from an airport
- code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
- comprehensible — Something that is comprehensible can be understood.
- comprehensibly — capable of being comprehended or understood; intelligible.
- comprehensions — Plural form of comprehension.
- comprehensives — Plural form of comprehensive.
- conchyliaceous — Alternative form of conchylaceous.
- coniferophytes — Plural form of coniferophyte.
- container ship — A container ship is a ship that is designed for carrying goods that are packed in large metal or wooden boxes.
- context switch — (operating system) When a multitasking operating system stops running one process and starts running another. Many operating systems implement concurrency by maintaining separate environments or "contexts" for each process. The amount of separation between processes, and the amount of information in a context, depends on the operating system but generally the OS should prevent processes interfering with each other, e.g. by modifying each other's memory. A context switch can be as simple as changing the value of the program counter and stack pointer or it might involve resetting the MMU to make a different set of memory pages available. In order to present the user with an impression of parallism, and to allow processes to respond quickly to external events, many systems will context switch tens or hundreds of times per second.
- controllership — an employee, often an officer, of a business firm who checks expenditures, finances, etc.; comptroller.
- convent school — A convent school is a school where many of the teachers are nuns.
- coolheadedness — The state or characteristic of being coolheaded.
- coppersmithing — The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
- coquettishness — The state or quality of being coquettish.
- costume change — a change of costume by an actor
- cotton thistle — Scotch thistle.
- count the cost — If someone counts the cost of something that has happened or will happen, they consider how the consequences of that action or event affect them.
- counter-thrust — to push forcibly; shove; put or drive with force: He thrust his way through the crowd. She thrust a dagger into his back.
- countercharges — Plural form of countercharge.
- countermarches — Plural form of countermarch.
- counterpunches — Plural form of counterpunch.
- countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- counting house — a room or building used by the accountants of a business
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- cryoanesthesia — (pathology) Insensibility resulting from cold.